Today, most companies strive towards creating useful websites using different
design principles. Design principles are guidelines that are used to achieve a
goal to get good design. This study is a survey of design principles in order to
highlight those design principles that companies and organizations apply.
Study literature used in this study is "Do not make me think" written by Steve
Krug. The book mentions several design principles that we used as help to
find out if companies use similar principles.
Six persons participated in the interview that was conducted. This interview
consisted of a personal interview, semi-structured interviews and telephone
interview. This study also contains sub-questions which, together with the
interview questions represented the result.
The result shows that there are few companies using different design
principles while other companies use specific principles. By only using design
principles you will not achieve good design and therefor it is important to
consider the various factors that play a role in designing a website, such as
users and analytical work.
The conclusions of this study are based on the results of the interviews as well
as the theory. The purpose of this essay is to answer the main question: "Do
companies / organizations use specific design principles when designing web
pages?